Philip Arthur Bence PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

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within the dissertation as a whole, these theological
overviews appear only as brief summaries. The bibliography
includes, for those interested in pursuing a more complete
study, both the original sources from which these summaries
were drawn and other broader examinations of each of the
seven systems.
Within this chapter's sections, the presentation of a
theologian's ideas follows the emphases unique to his
'theological writing and, specifically, his written thought
on preaching. Other than the six broad categories of
preaching (content, source, purpose, setting, communication
factors, and the preacher himself), no predetermined list of
more specific topics governs this chapter's summaries.
These summaries (and the dissertation as a whole)
utilize written sermons only as sources of theology, not as
examples of preaching practice. For example, although both
Harry Emerson Fosdick and James Stewart freely used
illustrations in their preaching, the greater prominence
given to the use of illustrations in the Stewart section of
this chapter (as opposed to the Fosdick section) reflects
the relative priority these two gave to this subject in
their writing on preaching. Likewise, the 'preachers',
generally speaking, wrote more on the practical mechanics of
preaching; the 'theologians' on the theology of preaching.
The summaries mirror this contrast.
While considering each man's theological positions (in
this chapter and sections 1—VI of chapter three), I attempt
to present the system as the theologian himself would, based